Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Phone surveillance, made in Canada; Chile restores democratic rule; Someone Comes to Town, Part 20; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/10/26/viv…

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Phone surveillance, made in Canada: Octasic takes over from Harris's Stingray division.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320747874519445506

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Chile restores democratic rule: Neoliberal's first gunshot has stopped echoing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320761755493044231

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Someone Comes to Town, Part 20: "A glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read." -Gene Wolfe

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320764183047147530

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#15yrsago Bruce Sterling’s design future manifesto: viva spime! memex.craphound.com/2005/10/26/bru…

#10yrsago South Korea’s US-led copyright policy leads to 65,000 acts of extrajudicial censorship/disconnection/threats by govt bureaucrats techdirt.com/articles/20101…

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#10yrsago Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Popeye comic flickr.com/photos/mcbuck/…

#5yrsago BBC helps Saudis whitewash arms trade to Syrian jihadis theintercept.com/2015/10/26/bbc…

#5yrsago Near-future Ikea catalog: the Internet of Things’ flat-pack as a service medium.com/design-fiction…

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#5yrsago Sony licensed stock footage, then branded its creator a pirate for using it himself petapixel.com/2015/10/25/son…

#5yrsago Youtube’s pay TV service makes video-creators a deal they literally can’t refuse techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/you…

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#5yrsago IMF: Cheap oil will bankrupt the Saudis in five years money.cnn.com/2015/10/25/inv…

#1yrago New Hampshire state Rep John Potucek kills Right to Repair bill: “cellphones are throwaways…just get a new one” vice.com/en/article/43k…

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#1yrago Researchers’ budget blown when a migrating eagle’s tracker chip connects to an Iranian cellular tower and sends expensive SMSes bbc.com/news/world-eur…

#1yrago Nearly all Americans’ taxes will go down under Medicare for All theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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#1yrago “Affordances”: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve slate.com/technology/201…

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Yesterday's threads: Facebook threatens ad-transparency group; The madness of elite varsity sports; Bob Dylan sings a EULA; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1320404999508094976

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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books. @washingtonpost called it "a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance."

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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* Keynote, Privacyweek, Oct 27 cfp.privacyweek.at/pw20/speaker/L…

* How to Fix the Internet/Reboot 2020, Nov 9, rebootconference.org/day-two

* Cyberterrorists, Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes, and Were-Pomeranians/Texas Book Festival, Nov 12, texasbookfestival.org/events/cyberte…

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Recent appearances:

* TWiT: The J to J Protocol
twit.tv/shows/this-wee…

* Writing Excuses: Researching the FCK out of Things
writingexcuses.com/2020/10/11/15-…

* SRSLY WRONG: Stop Techno Dystopia!
srslywrong.com/podcast/220-st…

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My first picture book is out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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Today's top sources: Metafilter (metafilter.com), Schneier (schneier.com, Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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